From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:06:33 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 2/9] spl: add initial support for a generic SPL framework In-Reply-To: <1310746944-32711-1-git-send-email-daniel.schwierzeck@googlemail.com> References: <1310569869-31810-3-git-send-email-daniel.schwierzeck@googlemail.com> <1310746944-32711-1-git-send-email-daniel.schwierzeck@googlemail.com> Message-ID: <20110718160633.530B617E88C6@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Daniel Schwierzeck, In message <1310746944-32711-1-git-send-email-daniel.schwierzeck@googlemail.com> you wrote: > Signed-off-by: Aneesh V > Signed-off-by: Daniel Schwierzeck Thanks. > +Overview > +-------- > + > +To unify all existing implementations for a secondary program loader (SPL) > +and to allow simply adding of new implementations this generic SPL framework > +have been created. With this framework almost all source files for a board s/have/has/ > +How it works > +------------ > + > +There is a new directory TOPDIR/spl which contains only a Makefile. > +All source files needed by SPL are recompiled inside this directory > +and linked to the final binaries named u-boot-spl[.bin|.map]. The "recompiled inside this directory" might be misinterpreted. How about: "are compiled such that the resulting object files are placed into this directory" or similar? > +Thus makefiles and source files are able to build things differently for SPL. Strictly speaking, the source files don't build anything themself.How about: "This way we can compile the source files with different settings for SPL." ? > +Because SPL images normally have a different test base, one have to be s/test/text/ Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.